A FOR ANYTHING (was: Re: STATE-OF-THE-WORLD: It makes you want to cry)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 22:30:26 MDT

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At 12:06 PM 6/25/02 -0500, Lee Crocker wrote:

>> A FOR ANYTHING,...
>> http://www.rosettabooks.com/pages/title_68.html

>I'd be happy to read this, except for the facts that [...]
>(2) The e-book is published in an
>encrypted proprietary format

It's a pain, I guess. I'd like to see a better distribution system
available, as I've discussed a few times on the list previously.

>Consider the Baen Free Library:
>http://www.baen.com/library/

Well, nice idea, but Baen's free texts are only exciting if you feel a
craving to read stuff with titles like, let's see...

Born to Run
Cross the Stars
Demon Blade
Destiny's Shield

and so on. For all I know these are wonderful books or stories, but I don't
feel tempted to download them even though they're given away.

Damien Broderick

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